On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote: > El Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:55:17PM -0600, Steve Langasek escribió: > > > No, I don't believe that the programming language used to write a > > > program is sufficient to choose it against others with similar > > > capabilities, but if you try some of the DNS packages in debian you'll > > > notice that, apart from bind, the majority of them need a RDBS or have > > > less features than this one. > > > > Can you tell me (because I don't know) which features maradns and pdns > > (using pdns-backend-xdb) lack compared to oak? From their descriptions, > > they sound similar to oak; perhaps the descriptions of these other > > packages need to be improved? > > After a quick inspection seems that maradns has all the features, I > rember trying it a year ago and I didn't liked it (maybe it was the > zone file format, I don't remember), but it seems it's still in active > development and maybe is time to give it a new try. > > And about pdns, when I looked at it it was only authoritative and I it > worked only with RDBMS, I'll try it again. > > Apart from that, do you think I have to retire the ITP because there > are too many DNS servers in Debian? I think that one of the good > things in Debian is that you have a lot of alternatives, and if the > packages work and are actively maintained ... where is the problem?
Hi You should not withdraw your ITP for that reason. I also like debian because it gives you alternatives. Just go ahead if you think you can manage the package in good shape. Regards, // Ola > -- > Sergio Talens-Oliag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://people.debian.org/~sto/> > Key fingerprint = 29DF 544F 1BD9 548C 8F15 86EF 6770 052B B8C1 FA69 -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
